SFPD Still Uses Unreliable Polygraph to Screen Recruits

SF Weekly | August 12, 2009
Polygraph examinations have constituted a routine part of checks conducted on potential recruits for as long as the SFPD's current background examination supervisor can remember. And it seems as if people are still fooling the machine.

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